Narrative Fallacy Quotes

#1. Author discussed what he calls the "narrative fallacy." This refers to our "limited ability" to look at a sequence of facts "without weaving an explanation into them.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

#2. The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe how humans are biologically inclined to turn complex realities into soothing but oversimplified stories.

Anonymous

#3. When the pace of our feet matched perfectly, I felt a deep inner pang of satisfaction. I could have gone on walking like that forever, side by side with him. There had been few times in my life I had ever inhabited a moment so fully, with no loneliness lurking at the edges.

Lisa Kleypas

#4. Out beyond ideas

Khaled Hosseini

#5. People think I was born in top hat and tails.

Fred Astaire

#6. We have far too many ways to interpret past events for our own good.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. You don't have to know how to shine the sun, you just do it. Like you breathe. Now doesn't it just astonish you that you are this fantastically complex thing? And you are doing all of this and you never had any education in how to do it?

Allan Watts

#8. Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

Stephen Fry

#9. In his fairy dreams of war [Thaddeus] always made conquest the sure end of his battles ...

Jane Porter